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Old 12-07-2008, 07:52 PM
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Heart PPROM (pre-preterm rupturing of membranes)

I'm very curious if anyone else has ever had this happen to them.

Here's how it happened for me:
Our son is a rare medical miracle. In July 2008 at almost 19 weeks pregnant my water broke. I was scared and didn't know what was going on. My fear turned into devastation when the Doctors told us that at this early stage in pregnancy there was virtually no way our son would survive. I had a million ultrasounds within a 2 day period and there was no fluid at all, it had completely drained. Somehow though his heart was still beating, and to me that was a sign. They gave me all my options #1.) Continue the pregnancy until labor naturally happened (which for most occurs within the next 2 weeks after the membranes have ruptured) which being only 19 weeks there was no way he'd survive, #2.) I could go ahead and be induced and terminate the pregnancy. Those were my only 2 options, either I did it now myself or waited for nature to do the work, either way there was a 1 in a billion chance that he would ever survive without problems.

I went to the Doctor every week, the 2nd week we had made the difficult choice of terminating. I went into the office to see my Doctor and they wanted to do one last ultrasound to confirm that my condition had not changed. When they did the ultrasound I had a full bag of amniotic fluid! Another Doctor who is higher up than the first Doctor I saw came in and asked if he could do another ultrasound on me to see for himself.

He did the 2nd ultrasound and when it was over he sat down and looked at us and said "I don't know how but somehow the membranes completely resealed and the fluid is there, I see nothing wrong with the baby and at this point if I wouldn't have known your case beforehand I wouldn't of even been able to tell that the membranes were even ruptured in the first place!" He said in all the 30 some years he'd been in practice this was as close to a miracle as he'd ever seen. No one can explain it.

SO eventhough I'm only 18 and I got pregnant with my son unplanned 2 months after I had my daughter, he is apparently sent from Heaven and meant to come into this world. Now here I sit 38 weeks pregnant and about to get the most precious gift from God that anyone can

If anyone else on the site has ever lost a child to PPROM/PROM I'd love for you to share about it, I had never heard of it happening until it happened to me and let me just say I know now how strong you have to be to go thorough something like this. Well like I said if anyone wants to share, please do!
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